a year ago we were talking about declines in russia? >> that's russia being russia. was at the meeting in march with opec. they sat in on the meeting and they actually took saudi arabia, opec but read, saudi arabia, to task for not adhering to their products quotas and he went through a laundry list of the steps his government has taken leading export credits and so forth. here we are six months later, surprise, surprise. russia put more oil on the market. >> russia is doing the cheating. even though they're not official members of opec -- how much is about russia and how much is about saudi arabia is sticking to their quotas is? they could outproduce them, couldn't they? >> yes. they have been year under producing their quota, if you will. >> their producing less of x to make up for everyone around them who's probably cheating? >> exactly. and it's up for them to build up the chips for when the times get tough down the road if the oil price cracks and their able to call in everyone and say, we did it for you a few months back. now you need to get on board with us. >

and france and russia that could see tehran shipping 1200 kilos of low enriched uranium to russia forcessing there instead of on iranian soil. julie. >> julie: thank you very much. gregg. >> gregg: what does it mean for the middle east, the united states and the world, joining me now is michael singh, the former senior director for the milled eastern affairs, division of the national security council under president george w. bush. and thank you for being with us, mr. singh. >> thank you. >> gregg: a week ago the defense secretary said we stand by the analysis of the national intelligence estimate, that iran halted its nuclear weapons program, in the fall of 2003. and, you just heard what the national security advisor said. are they wrong? >> well, clearly, we are going to have to reassess those intelligence findings in light of this information, that is being provided, now, sort of through the media by the iaea, the nuclear watchdog at the u.n., and we have seen revelations in recent weeks that haven't been surprising. we know iran is work on nuclear weapons but they are disturbing,

., france, germany, russia, china met in have knee have with iran's chief nuclear negotiator. iran reported lay greed to grant access to its newly disclosed uranium enrichment facility will patience payoff. amir great to have you back. the "new york times" said that the iranians have made key concessions. do you agree? >> not at all in fact the negotiations were about three united nations resolutions that demanded that iran should stop uranium enrichment. now the negotiations are no longer about that, but about iaea, international atomic energy agency inspectors being allowed to inspect one of the sites that iran has declared. so, from disarmament, it became inspection. >> paul: what about the ability to at least inspect this new site only disclosed last week? iran had not previously disclosed it. i guess the u.s. intelligence had known about it, but didn't tell anybody else. isn't it good we could get access to that? >> well, yes, you know iran is 0 ed to allow access -- obliged to allow access under the nonproliferation treaty and other iranian sites are under inspection. th

>> wairn, you just said are we russia and to me it is like russia. i picture these soldiers marching around 12 months of the year. when do you get to let your brain be imaginative? >> with all due respect, why don't you just be a kid right now. it makes no sense at all. we've got to have people who are trell gent in this society who think. that's your problem right now. you have congressional members who probably never went to school. >> real quick, nancy, they have to raise taxes to keep kids in school, they will have to raise taxes across the board t comes down to that. it is a no brainer that we can't compete with the billions in china without education. if we're shipping all our jobs, manufacturing jobs over there, we have to be smarter and every study proves more time in school, more math education, more science education is going to raise our intelligence levels and our quality of life. every single study, period. >> all those things that make you stay in school 18 versus 16, i see no correlation between those states states have havingr s.a.t.

., britain, france, russia, china, and germany. instead of a showdown, the iranians signal they're ready to work with u.n. arms inspectors. in washington, president obama said in so far, so good, but iran still has to prove its& nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. >> reporter: as officials arrived for the meeting, expectations were low. success, many thought, would be nothing more than an agreement to meet again. but they appeared to have got much more than that. including an unprecedented 45-minute, one-on-one talk between the head of the u.s. delegation, william burns, and iran's chief nuclear negotiator saeed jalili. in washington, the president commented in a speech that was broadcast on iranian tv. >> today's meeting was a constructive beginning. but it must be followed with constructive action by the iranian government. >> reporter: at the end of the day, europe's foreign policy chief javier solana announced what looks like real progress. iran agreed the international atomic energy agency could inspect the secret nuclea

survived through this crisis by having russia make any essentials much weaker. iran realized that rirus aligning with the united states, they made this concession. >> all right. thank you, michael. >>> still ahead, more on the first doses of the swine flu vaccine coming out. we'll have the latest on the spread of the virus on msnbc sunday. (announcer) we understand. you need to save money. it would frustrate me. my bayer meter is very important. (announcer) only bayer's contour meter has programmable personal high low settings. it allows me to make sure that my diabetes is controlled as tightly as possible. (announcer) the contour meter, only from bayer. >>> msnbc is the place for politics. here's where health reform stands right now. the senate finance committee to vote on the baucus bill this week and once that measure is approved, senate majority leader harry reid can merge it with the one passed by the health committee. then by mid month, the full senate debate is expected to begin, but will the contentses of the bill satisfy progressive democrats pushes har

i think you need iraq and russia to work out well. and then you can ask yourself really whether or not forecasts will be right. >> i love your point about how even though there's a spike in the price, you don't get a response from governments that control oil in order to produce more. why? they're unable? they don't have the political will? they don't have the money for the infrastructure? >> yeah. that's feeding off itself. it adds to volatility which makes it harder to reinvest. that's how we get to the spiral situation once again. >> in the near term you're looking at about $55 for oil. correct? >> next year, yeah. >> thanks, paul. >>> still ahead at the top of the hour, bank of america's sally krawcheck joins us. we'll talk markets, investing, b of a's search for a new ceo. all of that coming up. >>> up next after this break, the fast money halftime report. we're going to get you up to date on the markets and big action plays, right now. fithe same tools the pros use, so you can be a disciplined trader. by selecting from eight adv

putin of russia, about three years ago. the issue is that the u.n. asked iran not to enrich uranium. it is like haggling in a carpet bizarre as long as you buy the main carpet they give you caviar, tea, a little rug. they will kiss you on both cheeks and so on. but the rug, you have bought it. the rug that mr. obama has bought is iran's right to continue to enrich uranium >> paul: your conclusion would be that iranian leaders have no intense of giving up their nuclear weapons program? >> absolutely not. to be honest they say themselves openly again and again, only you don't want to hear it in the united states. they say cat gorelick that iran -- categorically that iran will not stop its nuclear project period. let's talk about palestinian, global warming, trade about the form of united nations. they are giving a package in which everything is mentioned, sadly not [ inaudible ] >> paul: put yourself in the head of the iranian leaders. if that's their intention what do they hope to achieve from these talks? the president says the goal is to get them to

be in control of partners here with france, potentially russia to help do that returning that enriched uranium just to a level that would help them pursue their energy pursuits, not anything beyond that? >> no, that's right. in fact, the idea of international nuclear fall bank, if you could call it that, has been something that was talked about in congress during the second term of president bush. and this is something that at least so far, the iranians have been fairly cool b the fact that they are changing stance now, or at least appear to be giving indications that they are considering it is certainly a positive sign but it is also, i think, somewhat problematic in the sense that it creates a situation where iran can engage in clandestine uranium enrichment at home without having even nominal oversight of the international community because they can say that all the uranium enrichment is going on abroad and therefore there is no need for inspectors at all. >> okay to. >> i want to bring back savannah quickly while waiting for the president, something elan talked about in the face-to

long ago russia was suggesting it would take over the fuel from iran. this would be at least setting up a protocol that could be expanded on. >> andrea, i think you ought to recognize that this was a clever diplomatic trap by the iranians. when they offered to the washington post editors and the security council this offer if the u.s. and the other western powers said, no, we're not going to do it, iran would have had a primaphasia case for saying, look, that's why we need our own larger enrichment capacity because you could turn our reactors off. if this would take place, i think it's an interesting opening. i don't think it guarantees anything about their larger plant. they've invested so much into that, it is really hard to believe that they'll walk away from it. >> they say that they're going to have technical talks on october 18th and they also suggested that they raise the level of the second round of talks that all sides agree to today to the minister level. there is a possibility that that could take place, we're told. where do you see u.s. iran

he's called for a reexamination of relations with russia, one that seeks practical cooperation on mutual interests while acknowledging the fundamental issues on which nato and russia still continue to disagree. he's embraced new media, working to bring the message of nato to a new generation that has grown up never knowing firsthand the experience of a divided europe or a warsaw pact. he's recognized the growing ballistic missile threat to the alliance and the need for nato to play a central role in having an adaptive approach to missile defense that will protect all allies and he's reaffirmed the commitment to our shared tasks in afghanistan on which he will share his views and vision with us tonight. ladies and gentlemen, it's my great privilege to welcome to the podium, the man who will lead our alliance into a new era, the 12th secretary general, anders rasmussuen. [applause] >> general scowcroft, general jones, leanl, first of all, thank you very much, jim jones, for your kind introduction and let me also thank the atlantic council for inviting me to speak here today. i know that th

in 2014 russia got them and then all head of state to make the debate. obama did nothing unreasonable and it would be a chicago a shock for chicago to win. >> after complaining about the republican come pain, but there are two big issues here. one, the president looks weak and it's bad politics for him. i was for the olympics here but there's a second thing going on. i think last week it was pretty clear that jarrett was running the white house. >> when obama wins, i would say republican -- there's no way he would go unless -- there is that internal washington story, unless i have -- i have to say, i'm with obama on this. he took a risk and comes out somewhat assume mill ated. he put the country ahead of his own personal prestige. i actually don't mind it. i think he was over it already. >> i think rachel was right on this issue of the right cheering. the slogan for country first. on obama, i think one of the things that went wrong here, our olympics committee counted the votes completely wrong. people on that olympics committee seemed to lie and they ha

in the end, neither russia nor china is going to agree to new sanctions against iran that would come anywhere near secretary clinton's favorite standard of crippling sanctions on iran. russia and china may accept marginal expansions of sanctions, but not anything that would be crippling. and even if you think what might be possible, the international community is not going to impose so much suffering and hardship on iran beyond what iran endured, say, during the iran/iraq war. sanctions would generate strategic leverage over their decision-making. it's not an effective strategy. >> what would you suggest as an alternative? >> i think the alternative is serious strategically grounded diplomacy with iran aimed at resolving differences between the united states and iran and as part of that process, iran needs to know, understand, feel confident that its own strategic needs are being addressed and can be met. that's what got us the breakthrough with china. that's what got us the breakthrough with libya. if we want success here, that's the approach that needs to be pursued. >> flynt lever

., france, germany, russia, china met in have knee have with iran's chief nuclear negotiator. iran reported lay greed to grant access to its newly disclosed uranium enrichment facility will patience payoff. amir great to have you back. the "new york times" said that the iranians have made key concessions. do you agree? >> not at all in fact the negotiations were about three united nations resolutions that demanded that iran should stop uranium enrichment. now the negotiations are no longer about that, but about iaea, international atomic energy agency inspectors being allowed to inspect one of the sites that iran has declared. so, from disarmament, it became inspection. >> paul: what about the ability to at least inspect this new site only disclosed last week? iran had not previously disclosed it. i guess the u.s. intelligence had known about it, but didn't tell anybody else. isn't it good we could get access to that? >> well, yes, you know iran is 0 ed to allow access -- obliged to allow access under the nonproliferation treaty and other iranian sites are under inspection. th

let's change the exphen necessary yo from russia -- let's change the scenario from russia to us. who has got us spending all kinds of money? who has sown the seeds of discontent to where we're yelling at each other all the time where we're not allies anymore, we're not even allies or neighbors anymore. we're hating each other. who is doing that to us? i know, they'll blame it on me. really. of course they blame it on me. otherwise we got to look at what they're doing. they're sewing the seeds of discontent. we're in a war in afghanistan. i don't know if you know this, not going well. what's the plan there? and then the price of oil. gosh, what happens if all of a sudden saudi arabia says, by the way, the oil no longer paid for in dollars. this is garbage. it's worthless. we have these problems in place. yet our government is still jamming through trillion dollar healthcare plans. what? spending hundreds of billions of dollars on bank bailouts. oh, they need more money. how about some more stimulus money? they don't even flynn much at billions in the cost of a mass itch cap and tr

>> i think the only country that has that influence now is russia.been a participant in supplying iran with some of this nuclear equipment there. has been this deal of withdrawal in europe the question is will the russians exert enough pressure on iran to move the ball in the right direction? >> i heard madeleine albright say on our network that the elimination of that missile shield was not in any way good faith toward russia it us anything she says it wouldn't have worked. is that true? >> i really don't think frankly, secretary a distinguished statesman from a missile defense standpoint these are highly technical issues. we are advocating a c-based defense system, the main issue was a political issue the russians were not cooperating with us on major issues because they this was a finger the eye. if in fact this deterrent was directed at iran, the u.s. is still very much insisting on preserving that kind of defense shield. as it looks like containment may be the policy of choice over the next year or so. >> ambassador holiday, does seem like we ne

how everybody seems to be bashing it from china to russia. even some politicians in this country wondering if reserve status is essential. it was a rapid response, but i think that volatility needs to be brought up in the testimony held right now. >> what did mr. bernanke say? how did he answer that? >> i listened. i don't know the answer is going to make a nervous dollar trader feel better, but he reiterated that there is no reason in his mind, that the reserve status will be challenged, but it doesn't stop a lot of talk in articles and assumptions, whether correct or not, we know how the microphone can flekt the markets. >> we're going to keep rick santelli on reserve status. let's return to the hearing. >> we've seen that aggressive approach at the treasury department and we'd better modify the statutes unless we can assure all of your successors will be as conservative in their stat torre interpretation as you've been. the provision for that involves and assessment on institutions as low as $10 billion to repay the costs of bailing out a

talk to me about this deal where they will send some of their in rich uranium to russia, where they will do some work on it, and send it back. why would they consider that a victory? >> first of all, it is not clear that there is an agreement. the iranians denied any agreement in principle. by shipping this iranian to russia, in effect, we are legitimizing the regime that was produced in violation of four u.n. sanctions. now we want to take this uranium and bring in even close to weapons-grade? i think this is a bad deal, if there is any deal at all. martha: when you look at the resolution, it specifically says, iran must suspend all enrichment activities, including research and development. by saying they are not allowed to do any of this, and then take what they are working on and send it to russia, that is extremely contradictory. >> yes, and it legitimizes iran's to find of u.n. resolutions. this is important for your brand and every other proliferators. -- iran and every other proliferator out there. martha: if this were a u.s. court of law, i do not know if this would hold up so we

brazil and china, russia, they are talking about direct trading. these countries have real power and they are making their own side deals. this is not going to happen overnight, but it is happening already. the key thing is, reserve currencies, the middle east, over $2 trillion in denominated assets. they cannot force the dollar down too quickly, or else and will hurt their own economy. martha: what difference does it make what currency they use? >> it makes a huge difference. alexis, you are right about the numbers. if they all of a sudden say, we are going to move away from u.s. dollars, what happens is they have all of these dollars of their own that they have to unload into the market. the value on the world market will go down, so it will take a lot more on that to buy anything. inflation would skyrocket if that happened. this whole article was started from robert fiske. in the article, he called it an international kabal. i find it hard to believe that they want to have something on this happened so quickly. >> when we are thinking about the

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and he did it as a good will gesture in hopes that russia would cooperate with us over iran and russiaothing left in our back pocket. >> that is begging, negotiating with that leverage is not negotiating, it is begging. >> chris: the internal support, before -- >> clayton: before iran would buy support, to drum up homegrown support and people of iran would say, yes, we spirit and now we'll back off, it seems, though there might be a shift there, that are a buying time for the same reasons. >> i think, i mean, regardless, buying time, to get something, after 30 years of islamic mullah regime and people are saying enough is enough and also need the support of the international community and the people are actually asking for sanctions and before, american or israeli flags would be burned on the street and now russian and chinese flags are burned on the streets and, we need approach russia and approach china and get more serious about really imposing crippling sanctions. >> clayton: great discussion on this topic, we'll keep our eyes on it. the tempest in the tea pot, k. c., doctor, and l

look, russia, china, france, britain, germany and the presen stark choice. either they give up their program, or they succumb to pressure. that's agreed upon position. now, it's that russia and china have ris torically resisted sanction s but we have moved thm just recently on north korea. we now have in place with their unanimous support the toughest security council sanctions on any country in the world. we're united in presenting this choice to iran, and iran now has the responsibility either to adhere to its obligations internationally or face -- >> what crippling sanctions are you considering? what kind of pressure against iran if they don't -- >> there are a range of sanctions, david, under consideration. there are those we might pursue multilateral multilaterally. there are others we could do outside the security council with partners in europe and elsewhere, and then there are those that we can take by ourselves unilaterally. there's a wide range. >> economic sanctions? >> economic and otherwise. right now we're in a period of associations. >> we hav

russia designed sputnik to study the upper atmosphere but it ignited a battle that led to a new era of exploration 52 years ago today. >>> and now you know the news as fox reports this saturday october 4th, 2009. i'm julie banderas. thanks for watching, everyone. have a great week! >>> ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you. and welcome to the fox studios in new york city and this edition of huckabee. tonight, can we trust iran? do we send more troops to afghanistan? and should the government force you to buy health insurance? these are important questions, and tonight we're going to try to get some answers. we're also going to talk to future football hall of famer sports broadcaster and now actor michael strahan. and speaking of hall of famers, two words.ern lynyrd, skynyrd.and apse they're here and they're going to rock the house like never before. [applause] >> i love them, erika, and in lv part because it allows different poirnts opoints of view and encs individuality. i said many times republicans aren't r

you need china and russia, but you could go and do certain things without them. you could do gasoline stations, but they would be less effective because russia and china could compensate. all of the resources coming in and out of iran, selling oil, gasoline, are denominated in dollars. we could tell american banks, which have to clear dollar checks -- do not clear them. you could bring their economy, they're banking system to iraq halts quickly, but you should not wait to impose the sanctions until negotiations fail because that is almost too late. shepard: does that not then unite the people around the regime? >> that is what you do not know. what it puts the people to rally around the iranian flap, or does it puts the people to believe this is their time to overthrow the government? shepard: there was a time the argument worked and it made sense because they could control information. information is harder to control in 2009, so some counter truth could be fed in there. whether it would work is a different matter. the people did not get a lot of help with their

showed up unexpectedly and pushed it over the line for a little town in russia which is getting the014. so now, being the head of state and going to bid for your olympic town, seems to be almost obligatory. but it he left the president open to a lot of criticism from the republican side. >> you know, dave, i would ask you quick, we're politics people and we talk about international politics, but is it possible we have overlooked the internal politics of the ioc as being what this is all about? >> probably so. i don't pretend to understand the politics of the ioc and the u.s., the united states olympic committee, but from what i've read it's not very good and there's a lot of resentment towards the united states olympic committee and maybe this has something to do with it too. >> david hawkings, thanks so much. >>> sure. >> a toy story that could get ugly but probably not for people opening their wallets. we'll explain that ahead on "msnbc saturday." it's not always easy living with copd, but i try not to let it hold me back... whether i'm at the batting cages... down by the lake or.

., france, and russia that could see say ra tehran shipping 1200s to russia for processing their. >> james ro rosen, thanks from washington. >>> following recent allegation it waallegationsof a terror plow york city, it may be important to ric ratchet up security at te empire state building and the world trade site. there's a massive surveillance operation there installing 150 cameras with many more in the pipeline. it's all part of a $100 million security initiative modeled after the so-called ring of steel. steel. they have a system in the u.k. designed to monitor london's own financial district. laura ingle is live in lower manhattan with a closer look at new york's version of the ring of steel. hi, laura. >> reporter: high, julie. today for the first time we were allowed to take our cameras inside lower manhattan's security command center. inside this high tech nerve center is where law enforcement and those in the private sector all at the same time can keep their eyes on high-value targets like the brooklyn bridge here behind me, wall street, the ports, all at the same time. th

brought up the point, look, you talk about all this unity at the united nations and the truth is that russiand china still appear reluckitant to get on board with real sanctions. the question comes back to, where is the leverage the united states has against iran and for that matter, what is the u.s. able to demonstrate that would keep the israelis from taking action that they think is inevitable. >> of course, robert gates said very pointedly last week that military action would only slow down any kind of iranian nuclear development for a year to three years. it would not put it out of business because, in fact, we don't really know where all the sites are. and the important progress that was made here in geneva, if it does succeed, if the process is fulfilled. if they deliver on their promises, doesn't even get to the issue of what they have not yet disclosed. it only gets to what they are officially revealing about their nuclear stockpiles, not what we don't know. >> right. the question of what do we not know? these are just huge questions right now and the concern among those who are mor

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the biggest concession was the willingness to send three quarters of their enriched uranium to russiantrated and france to be put in necessary modules to put in the research center. that removes a lot of their capability even if they wanted to which they say they don't to build a bomb. and so, i think what we're doing is ratcheting up the controls and want to make sure that we have sufficient controls on all elements of their nuclear capabilities so that we feel comfortable with it. >> we are talking to you and looking at video of the missile tests they have done. how much of concern is that? >> well, the missiles -- it is of concern, alex, because the missile test, each time they do a test, they improve their capability a little bit and that's the purpose of the test. and of course, i'm sure we are following their capability but every time there's a test, there's sort of a, you know, an inching forward to more and more capability. and this is, of course, of -- this is concerning. >> okay. the talk that is are set for later in october, does this change anything, the discussion with th

now, we've been talking to russia. they're just as worried about this nuclear issue with iran as we are, so that's a positive. but, yes, there are some wild cards out there. china, for example. we really don't know whether they're going to be with us if we put sanctions because in order to put sanctions, it's not just the european allies. by the way, that was when things went through them to iran. we need to make sure we have everybody lined up and we can put sanctions on. and that takes time. >> let me ask you, congressman rogers, is this -- i understand your thinking here. you want to get us together and lead the europeans, french, the british, et cetera, germans. but isn't sitting down with them and making this last college try with the iranians one way to get them to join our team so they can keep their left wing allies quiet in their own countries by saying we tried the peaceful route? isn't this a way to get to where you want to go? >> think about this big hub bub with the announcement and disclosure of the secon

uranium, many believe, to he the basis for nuclear bomb, but the proposed deawould take most of it to russia and france d return it as fuel, which cannot be made to a weapon. and iran has agreed to let ited nations inspectors and to the supposedly sret nuclear facity near qom. it is too early to say wether 7.5 urs of talks in a quiet swiss village will to see ia growing crisis, which could lead toar. difficult negotiatio are [no audio] t end of the ye, iran will face more sanctionseither from the security council or om a consortiuat the united states, brita, france, and their allies. beyond that are the veiled and not veiled threat of military action. >> the insurgency in afghanian is growing, anthe success of th wesrn mission cannot be takenor granted. that is what the commander o u.s.nd nato fces in afghanistan said in london today. it is easy to see why genal stanley mcchrystal s concerned. they face almost dailgun battles wi the taliban. the bbc went to one of the marines' mos rete combat outpos. >> marching to war, taliban positions, just a coupl hundred meters over in that direcon. thi

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of iran to russia, and i think obviously expectations alone but i think there is a chance now to pute real pressure on iran, on this issue, to enlist all six countries in it. and to hold them accountable. but i -- the fact that we're sitting down, talking for the first time in 30 years face-to-face, i think is encouraging. i think is positive. >> that is encouraging, the discouraging part was a few months ago. okay okay stole the -- ahmadinejad stole the election and people were marching, doubting the legitimacy. we were not granting them legitimacy. that is over. now we are granting legitimacy. we are pretending all that stuff with the riots just never happened is so we are sitting down with its regime. we have given them that. we have given them a concession. they have given something, they made gesture, whether it is what we have done for them, granting legitimacy, i think they are a long way from that. >> lehrer: what would have been the alternative, in other words, to granting legit mass he. >> i'm fine with talking with them. i think we should always be talking about the legiti

out of the country, a substantial quantity of it shipped out of the country, and then reprocessed by russia and france, and then shipped back to use in a plant that makes medical isotopes, a smaller nuclear reactor. the significance of that, it would make safe this nuclear material that potentially the west feelit could be diverted to make nuclear bombs. >>> the insurgency in afghanistan is growing and the success of the western mission cannot be taken for granted. that is what the commander of the u.s. and nato forces afghanistan said in london today. it is easy to see what -- see why general stanley mcchrystal is concerned. 10,000 u.s. marines are and the province, facing daily gun battles with the taliban. our correspondent and a camera and went to one of the most remote outposts. >> marching to war, marines from petco company. -- marines from echo company. the corn provides good coverage, one of the few places a from homemade bombs. few foreign troops have been this far south before. it is the very edge of america's spirit of influence, or the taliban are at their strongest. >> we want

many believe, to have the basis for a nuclear bomb, but the proposed deal would take most of it to russia and france and return it as fuel, which cannot be made into a weapon. and iran has agreed to let united nations inspectors and to the supposedly secret nuclear facility near qom. it is too early to say whether 7.5 hours of talks in a quiet swiss village will to see is a growing crisis, which could lead to war. difficult negotiations are [no audio] at the end of the year, iran will face more sanctions, either from the security council or from a consortium at the united states, britain, france, and their allies. beyond that are the veiled and not so veiled threats of military action. >> the insurgency in afghanistan is growing, and the success of the western mission cannot be taken for granted. that is what the commander of u.s. and nato forces in afghanistan said in london today. it is easy to see why general stanley mcchrystal is concerned. they face almost daily gun battles with the taliban. the bbc went to one of the marines' most remote combat outposts. >> marching to war, taliban

iran said it will explore a proposal to turn over most of its low grade uranium to russia and france. it's turned into nuclear fuel for research in a form that could not be used for a bomb, then send it back to iran. if it works, it could be expanded. >> you could eliminate a need to operate an enrichment program inside iran. >> reporter: the administration says these talks will be the first test of the policy of diplomatic engagement. they agreed to meet, again, at the end of the month. >> thanks. >>> today in washington, i interviewed david petraeus. the general has been in on these talks on afghanistan with president obama. he said, again, today, it's a far different war. a direct outgrowth of 9/11. among other things, i asked about the main reason u.s. troops went to that place eight years ago, osama bin laden. on your top list going forward, where does osama bin laden fit on those? >> well, bin laden obviously has enormous iconic importance and a degree of operational importance. it's really his deputy issuing the instructions. the top two are of significant importance. and, it i

it was a bit of a surprise that the iranians agreed to ship some of their nuclear fuel to russia for enrichment. and that could really help put off sanctions for a while because russia will say, while we're doing this, we're not going to sign on to any sanctions. but the questions are, are there other secret sites? are the iranians hiding other kinds of nuclear fuel somewhere in the country? but yesterday, there's no question this was enough progress to put sanctions off, probably until the end of the year. >> right. and few people doubt there are other secret sites. george, our thanks to you. and george will have more of this on sunday, on "this week." >>> chris cuomo with the other headlines now. chris? >> diane, robin. we have good news in indonesia. this morning, crews pulled a girl from the rubble of a collapsed building where she had been trapped for 40 hours. she suffered only minor injuries. others were not as fortunate. the death toll is 1,100 and counting. >>> grim discoveries made in samoa, as well, after tuesday's tsunami. about 170 bodies have been discovered so far. int

russia and chi may acce marginal eansions of sanctions,ut not anything that would be crippling. and even if you think what might be possie, the international community is not goingo impose so mh suffeng and hardip on irabeyond what iran endured, say, during the ir iran/iraq war. at would generate leverage over their decision-maki. it's not an effective strategy. >> what would you suggest asn alternative? . >> i tnk the alternative i serious sttegically grounded diplomacy with iran aime at resolving differences between the united states and irannd part of that process, iran needs to know, unrstand, field confident that its own strategic needs are being addressed and can met. that's what got usthe breakthroughith china. that's what got us the brkthrough with libya. if we want scess here theeshgs thapproach that needs to be pursue >> flynt leverett, thank you ve much. >> thankfor hang me. >>> now it's yo turn to weigh in on this debate. we are going to ask the qution, if the talks ultimately fail and sctions e imposed on iran, do you ink that iran ll give its nuclear program? let u

and they agreed to ship some uranium to russia. >>> rescue crews in indonesia, pulled a teenager arriverubble of her collapsed college this morning, about 40 hours after wednesday's 7.6 earthquake. heavy equipment is expected to arrive there today, to help with the search for possible survivors. the death toll of that quake and the second one on thursday, is estimated to be 1,100 and counting. >>> the death toll has claimed to nearly 170. and many people remain missing. some areas aren't expected to have power for at least a month. a mass funeral and burial for victims is set for tuesday. >>> the pilot some called the hudson hero is back in the cockpit. u.s. airways captain sully sullenberger returned to a familiar route yesterday, flying from new york to charlotte. this flight was uneventful, except for the passengers who cheered when sully announced he was behind the controls. >> well deserved. >> that's for sure. >>> now, for this morning's weather from all around the nation. a large storm covers parts of the midwest today. the ohio valley and the gulf coast, too. minnealis, chicago

. >> reporter: managing a population in a country whose borders run from india to russia is no mean feat. china faces many issues in the coming decade. in an effort to improve the lives of the peasant population, beijing set a policy framework allowing farmers to lease their land rights issue. china made it easier for the rural population to obtain goods. curbing corruption is also a crucial part of keeping the rural areas peaceful. after dozens of riots against injustice and abuse of power. as the economy continues its rapid growth, beijing has realized that it needs sustainable development. recently pledging at the u.n. climate change summit to cut emissions and develop renewable energy. >> translator: out of a sense of responsibility to its own people and the people across the world, china has taken and will continue to take determined and practical steps to tackle this challenge. china has adopted and is implementing its national climate change program. >> unlike the past, where china put development ahead of the environment in its haste to catch up with the rest of the world, beijin